xii, 706 pages : 25 cm

Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, this book finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Historian Ira Katznelson asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. --From publisher description

Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-659) and index

Introduction : Triumph and sorrow -- Part I. Fight against fear -- A journey without maps -- Pilot, judge, senator -- "Strong medicine" -- Part II. Southern cage -- American with a difference -- Jim Crow Congress -- Ballots for soldiers -- Part III. Emergency -- Radical moment -- The first crusade -- Unrestricted war -- Part IV. Democracy's price -- Public procedures, private interests -- "Wildest hopes" -- Armed and loyal -- Epilogue : January 1953

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